Spring Bank, 253 North High Street, Musselburgh is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 May 1985. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
Spring Bank, 253 North High Street, Musselburgh
- WRENN ID
- secret-rood-oak
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1985
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Spring Bank, 253 North High Street, Musselburgh, EH21 6BQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 336 728
- Coordinates
- 55.94419, -3.06463
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Spring Bank, located at 253 North High Street in Musselburgh, is a villa built around 1840. This late classical building is two stories high and features a symmetrical three-bay design. The first floor is constructed of droved ashlar stone, while the ground floor is channelled, with polished ashlar dressings accentuating the structure.
The villa has advanced angle pilasters that include bases and entablatures. At the center, there is a distyle Ionic porch, which is topped with a balustraded balcony above an architraved and consoled corniced window. This window is flanked by two-storey, three-light canted bay windows. A band course runs along the first floor level, and a string course connects the first-floor cills to the balcony coping. The cornice, featuring a blocking course, aligns with those over the angle pilasters and bay windows. The windows are double-pane sash types, and the roof is piended and slated.
The forecourt is designed with corner piers, dwarf walls, and a central gateway. This gateway is marked by ball finialled monolithic obelisk gate piers that align with the dwarf walls.
Local climate
Spring Bank, 253 North High Street, Musselburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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